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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?
(a) He was a serial adulterer.
(b) He was a great admirer of art and artists.
(c) The fact that he secretly yearned for power and glory.
(d) The fact that he did not want anything for himself.

2. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?
(a) The Baroque Composers.
(b) The Romantic Poets.
(c) The Impressionist Painters.
(d) The Surrealist Writers.

3. What does the Arch Vicar call the calamity of World War that destroyed most of the world?
(a) The Nuke.
(b) The Event.
(c) The Dimestore Disaster.
(d) The Thing.

4. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?
(a) A religious leader berates a young woman about the nature of woman.
(b) Books are burned.
(c) Women are pampered and treated to mineral baths.
(d) The Chief is presented with a token of the community's gratitude.

5. What ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?
(a) Belial's Feast.
(b) Halloween.
(c) The Purification Ceremonies.
(d) The Devil's Dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. With respect to the strange behavior of the primitives, Dr. Poole experiences a change from which state to which state?

2. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?

3. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?

4. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?

5. Where do Dr. Poole and Loola first have sex?

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